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For Girls like You magazine unveils new cover honoring the legacy of founder, Wynter Pitts.
A champion for mothers and daughters everywhere through her books and global speaking engagements, Wynter Pitts launched the publication as a quarterly print magazine for tween girls on a borrowed laptop in 2012. In no time, it amassed thousands of subscribers from every state in the union, as well as readers in Australia, South Africa, England and more. When Pitts unexpectedly passed away this past July, her family and staff came together to continue publishing the magazine in honor of her memory and to fulfill her mission and vision: to empower and equip girls to walk boldly into becoming who God created them to be, and to provide parents with the resources and support needed to raise strong Christ followers.
The September/October issue, available now, is a tribute to Wynter’s legacy and features her and husband Jonathan?s four girls (Alena, Kaitlyn, Camryn and Olivia) on the cover. It is widely known that it was her girls she most wanted to influence, and so she poured her heart and soul into touching every part of the magazine with this personal passion.
As Jonathan Pitts wrote in the Welcome Letter for this special issue: Wynter started shining God’s light in this magazine and her light is still shining even though she is gone. God put her here on this earth for a time because he had a job for her to do, and a work for her to accomplish. She did that job very well. She shined the light for girls just like you, including her daughters, and now we want to keep bringing you this magazine, so every issue can continue Wynter’s dream, and be a light to encourage you to find and know God?s love and light.
Each issue of For Girls Like You is fun, interactive, edutainment” and features contributions and interviews from familiar faces as well as everyday girls who are choosing to live and shine for Christ. Regular contributors and partners in the magazine’s ministry include AMERICAN HERITAGE GIRLS, DANNAH GRESH’S SECRET KEEPER GIRLS and ERIN WEIDEMANN’S BIBLE BELLES. Also inside, girls will find Bible study, current fiction, visits to girls around the globe, craft ideas, games and puzzles, and most of all, opportunities for readers to contribute to every issue through SPRINKLES, where art work, stories, poems, dreams, news, anything readers want to send in are shared or by answering the question of the issue as presented through the magazine’s email newsletter.
The September/October issue includes all of this as well as a spread where readers can get to know Alena, Kaitlyn, Camryn and Olivia, and a few special sections in memory of Pitts:
Chrystal Evans Hurst, Wynter’s sister-cousin penned the feature article Wynter’s Last Yes, along with Adie Camp, wife of Jeremy Camp, encouraging readers in a piece entitled ?When Someone You Love Dies. Additionally, several friends of the Pitts family including Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Natalie Grant, Rebekah Lyons and Emily West wrote letters to her four daughters.
